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Title: Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework

Author: C. Helene Barker

Release Date: November 22, 2004 [eBook #14117]
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Language: English

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WANTED, A YOUNG WOMAN TO DO HOUSEWORK

Business Principles Applied to Housework

by

C. HELENE BARKER

Author of _Automobile French_

New York
Moffat, Yard & Company

1915

PREFACE

This little book is not a treatise on Domestic Science. The vacuum
cleaner and the fireless cooker are not even mentioned. The efficient
kitchen devised in such an interesting and clever way has no place in
it. Its exclusive object is to suggest a satisfactory and workable
solution along modern lines of how to get one's housework efficiently
performed without doing it one's self.

If the propositions that she advances seem at first startling, the
writer begs only for a patient hearing, for she is convinced by strong
reasons and abundant experience, that liberty in the household, like
social and political liberty, can never come except from obedience to
just law.

C.H.B.

CONTENTS

PART I

CAUSES OF THE PRESENT UNSATISFACTORY CONDITION OF DOMESTIC LABOR

Ignorance and Inefficiency in the Home 1
Difficulty of Obtaining Women to Do Housework 11
The Disadvantages of Housework Compared with Work
in Factories, Stores, and Offices 19

PART II

BUSINESS PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO HOUSEWORK

Living Outside Place of Employment 31
Housework Limited to 8 Hours a Day 47
Housework Limited to 6 Days a Week 61
The Observance of Legal Holidays 75
Extra Pay for Overtime 81

PART III

EIGHT HOUR SCHEDULES IN THE HOME

Eight Hour Schedules for One Employee